Haxe Roundup 688

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• [events/upcoming] The next weeklong HaxeJam 2023: Summer Jam is scheduled to start on August 6th hosted by Logo. Remember to join the Discord event.
• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for August 6th.
• Tim’s Tips #1: Texture Packing Sprites by Tim I Hely.
• Animating Sprites in An Infested Kitchen article by E. Zachary Knight.
• 🔑House Plan Generator by Oleg Dolya.
• [devlog] Character 5 Reveal + Fraymakers at Super Smash Con and PAX West!! - July 2023 Progress Update.
• [devlog] Minicology 0.10.7 patch notes - Refinery live in overworld, melee buffs & crashfixes.
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• None this week.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim I Hely, a highly experienced HaxeFlixel developer!
• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• None.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Via the Haxe Discord server, BGP: Kitchen Infestation by E. Zachary Knight.
• Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Soundtrack available now on Steam!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• HXCPP Generate Typed Functions update. “C++ version down from 17 to 11, the Haxe repo tests pass with cpp and cppia and the hxcpp repo tests seem fine as well.”
• Run a command via a Shell: Java vs Haxe, but this could also apply to NodeJS or PHP.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Yeoman generator for Heaps by Nevergarden.
• HaxeAL Soft git - Native C++ Bindings for OpenAL Soft 1.23.1 by YanniZ06.

Git Repos

• [genes] Support custom enum discriminator merged.
• heappo git - Graphical User Interface Framework.
• kick-connector git - Replaces Kick Chat with one that also bridges Twitch.
• porcelain git - A set of helper classes and core game mechanics used by Fable Maker developed using Ceramic game engine.
• esb-bundle-sqlite git
• esb-bundle-xlsx git
• esb-bundle-deepl git
• esb-bundle-chatgpt git
• why-search-syntax git
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Clones copy your inputs, not your position. By Robert Alvarez.
• Movement is a game mechanic in Jitter Sandbox.
• ChatGPT spittin facts except for the part about tint.
• Explore with multiple perspectives in Scraps of Light.
• A cozy little library area in Into the Necrovale.
• New jump animation by SomeRanDev.
• New GIFs from Tenjutsu by Sébastien Benard:
  • A kungfu-roguelite that plays just like in a Jackie Chan or John Wick movie.
  • Working on a rogue-fu game.
• New quick videos from Kid Bubblegum by Ando:
  • Kick butt and chew bubblegum!
  • Bubblegum will let you climb anything.
  • Blow bubbles.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Ddmills added a destruction system in Wild West Roguelike, so you can blow stuff up!

Some Library Releases

• hxdefold 1.4.8
• sfs2x-api-haxe 0.0.4
• mc2it_theme 5.1.2
• bootstrap_bundle 2.2.1
• SScript 3.0.3
• genes 0.4.9
• MinecraftClient 0.0.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence.
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross platform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits proposal.
• Add Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
• Add new syntax for getters & setters inspired by the C# property syntax proposal.
• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

4~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• No hover/definition for overload call issue.
• Named inline functions get a single implementation for different classes if assigned to an object issue.